Machaerirhynchus

Machaerirhynchus is a genus of passerine birds with affinities to woodswallows and butcherbirds. The two species are known as boatbills. The genus is distributed across New Guinea and northern Queensland.

Boatbills
Yellow-breasted boatbill (Machaerirhynchus flaviventer)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Superfamily:	Malaconotoidea
Family:	Machaerirhynchidae
Genus:	Machaerirhynchus Gould, 1851
Type species
Machaerirhynchus flaviventer[1] Gould, 1851

The species are:

• Black-breasted boatbill, M. nigripectus, found in New Guinea
• Yellow-breasted boatbill, M. flaviventer, found in northeast Australia